An email to Inspector Martin Best of North Wales Police

cc. Chief Superintendent Ruth Purdie, Cllr Ian Roberts Head of North Wales Police Authority, Cllr Tony Sharps Environment Portfolio Flintshire County Council, Carl Longland Director of Environment Flintshire County Council. Cllr Arnold Woolley Flintshire County Council leader.
Jim Moore All Wales Safety Partnership.


Dear Martin,
Congratulations on your new position as District Inspector for Mold, Buckley and Penyffordd. I hope you enjoy your time here as Police Inspector. I've been in the shed this morning sorting through 20 years of items that " might come in handy". A look on Ebay shows I have a few surprises to sell. Nearly every minute or two you can hear cars flying through the village, its Saturday morning no police presence and they all know it. They have no respect for Chester Rd, Penyffordd whatsoever.

You might like to visit Cllr Sharps' domain in Northop Hall and see how he has stopped any speedy rat runs through his manor. You might then like to visit Rossett that is exactly the same as Penyffordd. An old trunk road that has been succeeded by a bypass. Notice the 20 mph bumps and limits.

Then back to Chester Rd, Penyffordd which is wide open and used by over a 1000 vehicles each day as a short cut to and from Broughton and beyond. There used to be 2000 vehicles speeding through Penyffordd each day but now its nearer 1000 due to the credit crunch and articles and letters that have appeared in The Evening Leader.

There appears to be an unofficial moratorium on speeding by North Wales Police. Flintshire County Council have a variable moratorium on speed bumps ( an oxymoron?) Arrive Alive have disappeared off the planet in name and function.

I remain to committed to living in a village centre and not a race track. I hope you can help transform Chester Rd back into a village centre environment.

Colin Hughes

Penyffordd District

ps CBM Howie Williams suggested pushing back the speed limit up the hill which is a really excellent suggestion. I hope you can help our county councillors push this.


pps Hugh Jones Safety Officer for Flintshire County Council has two sets of traffic data for Chester Rd but his bosses won't let me have a copy because it's that bad.

ppps. Can we have speeding put on here please.
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